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William Land . Home Guard Feltwell Btn.
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J Landells . British Army J Landells served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Gunner Robert Haswell Landells . from wallsend
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W Landells . British Army 6th Airborne Armoured Reece Regiment Reconnaissance Corps W Landells served with the 6th Airborne Armoured Reece Regiment Reconnaissance Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Les Landells. . RAF 626 Squadron
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Able Sea. Edward Thomas Lander . Royal Navy HMS Express from Crayford, Kent My grandfather, Edward Lander was shipwrecked and spent days afloat before he was picked up by the Germans and taken prisoner. He was in various POW camps, and I have the list, but he was in BAB 21 (Bau und Arbeits Battalion 21), Stalag 8b, where he is shown in photos unloading Red Cross Parcels. He was also on the forced westward march of POWs in January 1945.
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Flt.Sgt. James Frederick "Pop" Lander . Royal Air Force 101 Squadron from London James Lander served with 101 Squadron Royal Air Force.
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JP Lander . British Army JP Lander served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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William Francis Landin . Royal Air Force 220 Squadron from Ripponden, West Yorkshire William Landin was my late father, he enlisted in the RAF Sept 1938 signing up for 6 years. Did he know was going to happen twelve months later I wonder? After his initial training he was eventually posted to 220 Squadron at RAF Thornaby where he was stationed for about 18 months. He was then posted to 254 Squadron before going to the middle east with 252 Squadron where I believe he served for the remainder of WW2 until he was discharged January 1946.
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D Landles . British Army D Landles served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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LWJ Landrey . British Army Royal Armoured Corps LWJ Landrey served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Capt. Raoul David "Ralph" Landry . Canadian Army Canadian Army Medical Corps from Bouctouche, NB Dad, Ralph Landry went to enlist as a medical officer very soon after Canada declared war on Germany. As a family physician, he felt he should contribute to the Allies' War Effort, and besides, the war would be over by Christmas!
Surprisingly, he failed the Army enrolment medical test because his blood pressure reading was too high. He coaxed the medical examiner into falsifying the reading by inscribing a normal BP reading instead, and he was accepted into the Canadian Army.
He sailed from Halifax on the refitted troop ship Queen Elizabeth.
The crossing was very rough for a number of days with sea sickness severe.
Dad said it was so bad that after 3 days of sea sickness, he thought he would die, but on the 4th day, he was afraid he wasn't going to! He'd have to live through that misery.
He did survive the sea sickness and the balance of the crossing then spent 4 years in England, awaiting The Liberation Landing. During that time, he enhanced his practical medical training by studying radiology at London University. He did some further army training and also had time to travel into Scotland and Ireland. He spoke about eating out in England, and how unappetizing the food was. Dessert was always stewed rhubarb!
After the landing, he was very busy with the medical care of Allied and enemy soldiers brought to the field ambulance. Dad was in France somewhere in early to mid-Sep .1944 when he received a telegram from his wife announcing that his young brother-in-law Mark Corbett had been killed near Caen when his jeep ran over a landmine. It was a very sad shock. He had 2 brothers-in-law in the army, and Mark was the baby of his wife's family.
Dad said little about his medical experiences but spoke about his strong map reading skills which proved life-saving for the entire field ambulance unit, he twice confronted his CO to correct the direction being travelled which otherwise would have led them all straight to the Germans. They would have been captured or worse.
Once they reached Holland, he was horrified at the level of starvation of the populace. The Canadians shared the rations they had and gave candy to the children. He said they'd try teasingly to make the Dutch children say that the German were bad soldiers but the children insisted, "Nien, gut soldat!". The German soldiers had also shared treats with those children. Dad told us kids, "The Germans were homesick too, missing their own families and children, and showed kindness to the little ones."
In one town being liberated, shop keepers threw open their doors and insisted the Canadian help themselves to a souvenir. The Canadians at first refused, seeing how much these people had suffered. But the Canadians soon realized how important it was for the Dutch to show their thanks in this manner and that it would be insulting to continue to refuse, so each took a small item. I still have the small darling brass windmill bell with a turning windmill, which Dad took. It is always front and center on our mantle. Every Nov. 11th my children all know its story, and with time, my grandchildren will too.
As children, we never went camping on summer holidays. Dad said he had camped for 5 years, meaning during his 5 years of service, and that being in a tent was no holiday to him. So we stayed in motels til we reached family around Canada and New England.
Dad spoke of the horrors of war, strongly stating that there was nothing glorious about it. To demonstrate this, he refused to send for his medals so they are still in Ottawa, unclaimed. Dad was a very principled man.
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T.Capt L Landy . British Army Royal Army Service Corps T.CaptL Landy served with the Royal Army Service Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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A Lane . British Army Royal Armoured Corps A Lane served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Pte. Charles Lane . British Army 6th Btn. Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
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Dennis Arthur Lane . Auxiliary Fire Service from Derby Dennis Lane was moved to London during the War with the Auxiliary Fire Service. He was an organ builder by trade in Derby and also lived in Derby. He later became part of the Borough fire service in Derby and that's all we know. I am looking to find some more information, any help would be great.
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Pte. Edward George Lane . British Army 7th Btn. Devonshire Regiment from Kingsteignton, Devon. (d.2nd Jul 1940) Edward Lane was the son of John Henry and Lillian Maud Lane, of Kingsteignton, Devon.
He was 21 when he died and is buried in Grave 1 in the Ballycastle New Cemetery, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo, Ireland.
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EG Lane . British Army EG Lane served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Sgt. Eric Arthur Lane . Royal Air Force 405 Squadron from Lydbrook (d.14th January 1944) Eric Arthur Lane was my father's cousin who, had it not been for a passing comment by my father about "wanting to pay a visit to Eric's grave "before his days were up", I would have known nothing about him. This has led me into a field of research I never even realised existed which has brought a whole new world, and many new friends, into my life.
As Eric was an Englishman attached to the RCAF Pathfinders, very little is documented about him as an individual although, through various research avenues, I have managed to piece together information relating to the flight and raid in which he lost his young life.
Eric was the Flight Engineer of a crew piloted by Gordon Drimmie DFC (RCAF), that took off from Gransden Lodge at 16:57 on 14th January, 1944. They were part of a large raid of c.650 aircraft on the Brunswick/Braunschweig area of NW Germany.
The raid was far from successful and resulted in the loss of c.36 Lancasters with minimal damage to the intended targets.
Eric's Lancaster was intercepted en route at 18:45 by a Night Fighter, believed to be that of Oberst Helmut Lent of NJG3 based on Luftwaffe claims for that date, and crashed at Uepsen in the district of Diepholz. All seven members of the crew were KIA and were buried in Hoya Cemetery before being interred in Hannover War Cemetery after the War.
Eric's plane, Lancaster III ND423, was transferred to 405 squadron on 8th January, 1944 and this was it's maiden operational flight.
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of my Uncle's passing, I and my father will be travelling to Germany to pay our respects to Eric at his grave and will also be visiting the reported crashsite in Uepsen.
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FC Lane . British Army 44th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment FC Lane served with the 44th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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FD Lane . British Army FD Lane served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Sergeant Frederick A. Lane . (d.17th Aug 43) Frederick Lanes was a Flight Engineer the was killed on 17th Aug 43 on Ops.
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PO. George Reid Lane . United States Navy USS Boise from Johnston Street, Edenton, NC My uncle, George Reid Lane, was on the USS Boise.(CL-47) at the Battle of Cape Esperance. He was into one of the turrets. A total of 107 crew was killed and his family received word that he was missing in action, then received a gram that he was dead. Several months later he walked into the family home alive. However, he had been unconscious for a long period of time could have been the mix up. He returned home with a steel plate into his head and scars on his back. He has passed away now. I would love to have information to share with my sons about their great uncle. If any one can give roster list to show their names etc. or has an medical information, somewhere to make a connection it would be a wonderful to have.
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Wing Commander Gerald Arthur Lane DFC. RAF 51 Squadron Writing for my Grandfather
Wing Commander GA Lane OBE DFC. who started the war in the 51 squadron.
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HR Lane . British Army East Kent Regiment HR Lane served with the East Kent Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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HW Lane . British Army Royal Army Medical Corps HW Lane served with the Royal Army Medical Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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J. F. Lane . Royal Air Force 50 Squadron J.Lane served as the wireless operator on T.B.Coles crew.
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Pte. Lawrence Lane . British Army 16th Btn. Durham Light Infantry from Middlesbrough My grandad Lawrence Lane was from Middlesbrough.
In April 1942 he married my gran, Hilda Murphy, who was pregnant with my mum. A couple of days later he left for war. He was in the 16th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry.
I have seen documents saying he was taken POW 10th of March 1943. He was in Italy but moved to a Stalag in Poland. My grandmother received a letter saying he was missing presumed killed in action.
He returned home in 1945 and saw my mum for the first time.
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Pte. Lawrence Lane . British Army 16th Btn. Durham Light Infantry from Middlesbrough My grandad, Lol Lane was reported missing on the 10th of March 1943 in Italy. He was transported to Stalag 344 Lamsdorf in Silesia, Poland. He returned home to Middlesbrough in 1945. He never spoke of his time in the camp but when he died in 2006 in his pocket he still had the letter my grandma received saying he was missing, presumed dead.
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LG Lane . British Army Royal Fusiliers LG Lane served with the Royal Fusiliers British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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